Category: English

Today a friend/colleague asked me if we could go over her lesson plan before her observed class. As we did, I realised I use different techniques for teaching dialogues than she does and thought they might be worth sharing. Also, following the hoo-ha of my two latest posts, I’m writing a humble, practical text to …

I am a freelance teacher. I work for language schools (aka agencies), universities, companies and private clients. Over the years I have come to realize that a large part of my success as a teacher is down to being organized and I have developed several course administration strategies which I’d like to share with you. …

There seems to have been so many discussions on Twitter about the (non) use of coursebooks in EFL courses as well as a great deal of consensus why not to use them that I have nearly forgotten that my own environment (Prague, Czech Republic) is different. Many of my fellow teachers, who are also my …

My one-to-one student has recently become interested in the topic of unschooling and asked me if we could do this video on the topic in our English class. I said yes before I knew what I was doing. When I was preparing for the class I realized I wasn’t sure what the aim of watching …

I like doing dictations in my classes. It is a simple exercise which everybody knows. This recent post inspired me to do more of them. I do dictations in my English classes as a form of a micro-listening exercise, and I do them in my Czech classes to give students training in listening and correct …

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